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They keep getting foiled by their neverending need to monetize their own drama.
Thank God they are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up and not telling on themselves.
We never have to worry about them having a good idea we didnt see coming because they'll tell you about the idea for two weeks ahead of time then have a dozen posts in their history encouraging other people to do the incredibly transparent move they're about to do.
It's like the whole "ok hand sign is a white supremacist signal"
Nobody thought it was anactual dogwhistle but fortunately anybody could point to 4chan threads where they had all agreed to say it was a white supremacist symbol so they could then claim leftists were crazy sjw's for suggesting it was a white supremacist symbol.
The only disheartening fact is it totally worked on liberals but you can't disappoint somebody who never had any hope in you to begin with.
I agree. The Internet's environment can hinder their organization considerably. It puts them in a state of competition against each other for views and revenue, which hinders collaboration and organizing.
I did remember when that happened with the "ok" symbol. Now it makes me remember when 4chan tried around the same time to claim chugging gallons of milk was a white supremacist signal.
Unfortunately it's one thing for people online to take notice and another for it to have an effect on the real world. See: Jan 6th somehow catching everyone in power off-guard despite being planned in public facebook groups.
But, like... Didn't it in a way then become one? Or did I imagine those people in atom waffen masks doing the ok symbol posing 'ironically' around 2020?
Yes they're plan was "were going to trick people into thinking it's a white supremacist symbol by using it while saying and doing white supremacist things"
Again they're really not great at planning because then people could point to that everytime they tried the "the sjws try to say everyrhing is a white power symbol"
NVM I think I understand now. I think I wasn't truly understanding the statement at first. Yeah the gaslighting failed miserably and simply became another white supremacist symbol instead because of gross incompetence on their part.